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L. P. SLAUGHTER.

KITCHEN CABINET.

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LUGIEN P. SLAUGHTER, OF MONTROSE, MISSOURI.

KITCHEN-CABINET.

SPECL PICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,223, dated July 28, 1885.

Application filed April 11, 1885.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LuoInN P. SLAUGHTER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Montrose, in the county of Henry and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Kitchen Cabinets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved kitchen-cabinet. Fig. 2is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is transverse vertical sectional view taken on the line 00 x in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 3 yin Fig. 2.

The same letters refer to the same parts in all the figures.

This invention relates to flour and meal chests and kitchen-cabinets; and it has for its object to provide a device of this class, which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency.

lVith these ends in view the invention consists in the improved construction and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings hereto annexed, A designates the frame or casing of my improved chest or cabinet, which contains at the sides two hoppers or bins, B B, for the reception of flour, cornmeal, and the like, and the upper ends of which are provided with hinged covers O O of suitable construction.

Arranged in each of the side compartments below the hoppers contained therein are two drawers, D and E, arranged one above the other, the upper drawer, D, of each compart ment being bottomless, as shown, and provided merely with side cleats or guides, F F, for a sliding frame, G, having ahandle, H, projecting through the front part of the drawer, and restsKtosupporta flour-sieve of ordinary construction, as denoted by letter L. The lower drawer, E, of each compartment forms a receptacle for such material as may pass through the upper or sifting-drawer D.

The central portion of the chest or bin, beg (No model.)

tween the compartments B B,is occupied by a compartment, M, having a door, N, drawer O, and a shelf or shelves, P, for sundry purposes. The top of the casing has a compartment, Q, adapted to contain a rolling-pin and the like,- and a flour-board, R, is arranged under the cover of one of the bins or compartments B, as shown.

At the bottom of each of the bins Bis a downwardly projecting spout, T, having a transverse slot. At the bottom of this spout is a frame, R, forming a bearing for the bottom one of apair of slides, th'e top'one of which passes through the slot in the spout. These slides S and S are so arranged that whenever the slide S covers the bottom of the spout the slide S uncovers the top of it, andthe spoutis filled from the bin above. WVhen the slide S is made to cover the top of the spout, so that nothing can enter it from above, the slide S is made to uncover the bottom, and the contents of the spout are emptied into the drawer below. These slides are operated by means of a double handle, U, the ends of which are secured to the upper and lower slide, respect ively, and the bent portion of it projects through the front part of the cabinet.

From the foregoing descriptiomtaken in con nection with the drawings hereto annexed, the operation and advantages of this invention will be readily understood.

' The general construction is simple and inexpensive, and the cabinet may be readily manufactured of any desired size or capacity. The flour and meal may be easily sifted and removed without the dust usually arising from these operations and the waste consequent thereupon. At the same time the bulk of the flour and meal is easily and at all times 210* cessible.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. In a kitchen-cabinet or flonrand-meal chest consisting of acompartment at each side and one between them, each of said side compartments having a bin or hopper atits upper part and provided with suitable covers, a downwardly-projecting spout at the bottom of each of said hoppers, a pair of slides so arranged that either the top or bottom of the spout is always covered by one or the other of them, aframe for supporting said slides, asuitsaid drawer, and means for operating the same, able sifting device below said spoutand frame, and asuitable sieve within said frame, substanand means for operating said slides and sift tially as and for the purpose set forth.

ing device, substantially as and for the pur In testimony that I claim the foregoing as I 5 5 pose set forth. 4 my own I have hereunto affixed my signature 2. In a kitchen-cabinet or fiour-and-meal in presence of two witnesses. chest, as described, the combinatlomwlth each LUCIEN R SLAUGHTER.

of the bins above and the drawers below, of cleats secured to the inner sides of the compart- 1o ments, below the bins, a bottomless drawer sliding upon said cleats, a frame sliding within Witnesses:

EDWARD D. WVEBB, JAMES H. VIOKARS. 

